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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Release Date: Mar 19, 1999
Running Time: 127 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
A down and out journalist finds his chance to turn his life around when he successfully manages to have a murder case reopened, just as the man convicted for the crime awaits execution on death row. The journalist fights against time to prove the man's innocence and save his life.
cast + crew
Director
Steve 'Ev' Everett
Frank Louis Beechum
Bob Findley
Bonnie Beechum
Alan Mann
Warden--'Luther Plunkitt'
Dale Porterhouse
Barbara Everett
Reverend Shillerman
Jane March
screenplay
Novel
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Novel as Source Material
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reviews
December 8, 2000
At first it's a kick to watch Clint Eastwood play Steve Everett, a horn-dog newsman who doesn't let a wife (Diane Venora) and child (Francesca Eastwood, his real-life daughter) interrupt his babe chasing. Is Clint being Clinton-esque? Even if he's not, these scenes are the liveliest part of this dog-tired movie.
The old man -- fired from the New York Times, Steve has moved to California to work for the Oakland Tribune -- is bedding the wife of the paper's city editor (a snarling Denis Leary).… 
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